Image of the Day: Gray Days in China Raise Concern
A worker walks among intense pollution in a Chinese coking factory. With China, a developing country, now the second biggest carbon emitter in the world, many nations question the old divisions between developed and developing countries that establish who should lead the fight against climate change. According to The Guardian, with negotiations … Read More
Image of the Day: Solar Ship Circumnavigates the Globe
The MS Tûranor PlanetSolar has become to first solely solar-powered watercraft to circumnavigate the globe. According to Popular Sci, the 115-foot-long ship is of course not ordinary, costing upwards of $16 million and housing 38,000 individual photovoltaic cells taking up 500 square meters of deck space. Click here to watch videos of the historic … Read More
The Supermoon is Coming! Do Not Panic!
In once sense, the astronomical event that happens this Saturday, May 5, is unexceptional: it’s the full moon, which happens every 29 days or so. This month, however, is a little bit unusual. We’re being treated to a so-called “Supermoon,” scheduled to make its appearance on Saturday night (exactly when depends on where you live: the U.S. Naval … Read More
Take a Ride Into Space With NASA’s Rubber Chicken
NASA isn’t just a science organization, though: it also has an educational mission, and to engage students in the science SDO does, mission scientist Tony Phillips created a mission mascot, Camilla Corona, with her own Twitter feed. Under Phillips’ mentorship, a group of high school and middle school students in Bishop, Calif., has gone beyond just… Read More
Image of the Day: Reef Madness; Sea Change of Colors
A coral on a reef in the Kenting National Park spawns in southern Taiwan. According to the Taiwanese Coral Reef Society, such spawning usually occurs by the 23rd day of the third month of the lunar calendar, which fell on April 13. Coral reefs and the organisms that build them are threatened by ocean … Read More
Image of the Day: Emperor Penguins’ Census from Space
Since the penguins live in very remote areas, the satellite images are a successful way to count the populations. Research suggests that emperor penguin colonies will be dramatically affected by climate change, according to British Antarctic Survey biologist Phil Trathan.… Read More
42 Years Later, Do We Suffer Green Fatigue on Earth Day?
I don’t remember all that much about the very first Earth Day, which happened 42 years ago, on April 22, 1970. I was a junior in high school at the time, and my youthful outrage, such as it was, was focused more on ending the Vietnam War than on saving the environment. Just 10 days later, Richard Nixon would push the Vietnam protests over the top … Read More
Image of the Day: Warming Keeps Them Busy as a Bee
The biggest change in the onset time for bees and flowers took place after 1970, which is the period that has had the greatest increase in mean annual temperature. While researchers don’t know the exact trigger for the bees emergence, Bryan Danforth, Cornell professor of entomology fears, “if climate change accelerates the way it is expected to, we… Read More
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